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14 <br />ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT TRANSPORTATION WORKGROUP <br />RECOMMENDATIONS <br />Notes from Transportation Work Group retreat <br />Hillsborough House Inn <br />Augusl18.2001 <br />Recommendations from the group <br />Comments to NCDOT reganclina Elizabeth Brady Road <br />(note, the group did not ra�vote after additional eltematrves were offered): <br />The seven options being studied in priodly order by what is preferred by the work group: <br />1. Elizabeth Brady alignment 3, which does not cross the river. goes across ridge (IF this Is the <br />least impact to the river) <br />2. Elizabeth Brady alignment 2 (averts racetrack, mosses over) <br />3. (original) Elizabeth Brady alignment 1 <br />4. Lawrence Road (with 86 connector) — but different function from above <br />5. Western bypass <br />6. No build <br />7. Widen Churton SL from 70 business to 70 bypass <br />Additional comments: <br />➢ Expand the DOT study area to the entire 50 -year water and sewer boundary from the town plan <br />P Have DOT continue with its existing list of options <br />➢ Add the consultant's current study area boundary as a e alternative, adjusted as needed and <br />using existing roads where possible <br />Y Design the Elizabeth Brady mad extension to minimize the impact on the Eno River, even if it <br />reduces mobility <br />➢ Treat Elizabeth Brady Rd. as a local road, not a bypass <br />➢ Treat Lawrence Rd option as having a different function from Elizabeth Brady, to move through <br />traffic around, not through, downtown <br />• Develop a new interchange of 1 -85 east of Lawrence Rd. b create passible bypass alternative <br />• Do other non -road fixes on Chudon Street to address congestion & safety, too <br />Other Recommendations —All Include bike and oeoestrian features (not In Doom, under) <br />Amend current plans: <br />1. Amend Western Bypass to begin near US 70 connector from IA5 and delete King Edward <br />Road extension from plan. <br />Extend existing mads: <br />2. Extend Lawrence Rd. south and west to connect with NC86 at the Old /New 86 connector <br />3. Extend Framers Grove Church Road south to new interchange on 185 and continue south to <br />connect with New Hope Church Rd. <br />4. Extend NO 86 west at Chudon Street to am parallel with railroad and connect to Eno Street at <br />Nash Street <br />5. Extend Orange Grove Road east to US 70 business <br />6. Extend JJ Freeload Memorial Drive east to Valley Forge Road <br />7. Realign and extend Old NO 10 to connect the access mad through Hampton Paints & cross <br />railroad to provide access to Beclard's Ridge and through to Oakdale Drive <br />